Caproni Ca.2

The Caproni Ca.2 was an Italian heavy bomber of the First World War, a minor development of the Ca.1 twin-boom bomber of 1914. Caproni replaced the central pusher engine of the Ca.1 with a more powerful one, which the company called the Caproni 350 hp and the Italian Army dubbed the Ca.2. It was a trimotor biplane of wooden construction covered with fabric, with two engines on the fronts of the twin booms that carried the tail, one on the rear of the central nacelle, and tricycle landing gear. A crew of four sat in an open nacelle, and armament was two to four Revelli machine guns with bombs hung under the nacelle. Only nine were built and delivered to the Italian Army between August 1915 and December 1916. The extra power encouraged Caproni to go further, leading to the Ca.3.